RAIL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Freightcar America | NASDAQ:RAIL)

FreightCar America Inc is a diversified manufacturer and supplier of railcars and railcar components. It designs and manufactures a variety of railcar types for transportation of bulk commodities and containerized freight products in North America. The company also provides railcar rebody and repair services, railcar conversion services, and supplies railcar parts. The company has two segments: Manufacturing and Aftermarket. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Manufacturing segment, which includes new railcar manufacturing, used railcar sales, and various conversions and rebodies. Geographically, it generates the maximum revenue from the United States.

Freightcar America trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol RAIL.

As of March 20, 2026, RAIL stock price declined to $7.95 with 156,503 million shares trading.

RAIL has a beta of 2.29, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. RAIL has a correlation of 0.23 to the broad based SPY ETF.

RAIL has a market cap of $151.68 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

Last quarter Freightcar America reported $126 million in Revenue and $.16 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-19 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.01.

In the last 3 years, RAIL traded as high as $16.10 and as low as $2.25.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that RAIL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VXF, IWC, DFAS, EES.

RAIL has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +23.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.6%. However, in the most recent history, RAIL shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -12.3% in the last 3 month period and -39.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned -4.7% and -4.8%, respectively.

RAIL support price is $7.78 and resistance is $8.46 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that RAIL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.